The founder of "Yulou East" Rao Shi is stubborn

Min Chu and Mr. Wu's "Xiangyuan Manlu" and other records, Changsha Yulou East Restaurant, originally named "Yulou Chun", opened in the 30th year of Qing Guangxu (1904) in Qingshiqiao Dongmao Lane (now Jiefang West Road), the founder was Rao Shijie, and later by Tan Xiting and others. "Yulou Chun" is originally the name of the word, which originates from the meaning of "Yulou Feast Drunkenness and Spring" in Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song". However, at that time, Changsha was opening its port, and a number of "Fan Restaurants" (that is, Western restaurants) emerged, all named "Spring", such as Sihai Spring, Wan XiangChun and so on. In order to distinguish it from Western restaurants, "Yulou Chun" was changed to "Yulou East". East, East Mao Lane is also said.

Rao Shi Stubborn, a changsha native, real name Zhiyuan, the word Shi Stubborn, a word Shan Uncle. Qing Guangxujian Yougongsheng, official cabinet secretary, supplementary Shaanxi Daoist. Rao Shijian was born in a family of merchants, and during the same year, his ancestors made a fortune by selling military rice, and later opened the "Rao Taihe" rice number in Taiping Street, which was well-known as the provincial capital. But Rao Shi stubbornly failed to pass through the world and embarked on a career path. He was well-educated, and when he was in the Beijing Division, he saw that his neighbors were pressing against him, so he devoted himself to studying border affairs and Chinese and foreign military strategies. In 1903, he was sent by The Governor of Huguang, Duan Fang, to supervise European students. In the process of sending Chinese students to study in Europe, Rao Shizhi personally felt the strong interest of foreigners in Chinese cuisine, so he had the idea of returning to the business world and running the catering industry. After returning to Changsha in 1904, he set up the Yulou Chun Restaurant in Changsha, mainly engaged in Hunan cuisine banquets. When YulouChun opened, he personally wrote a couplet and pasted it on the door of the store: "I want soup to cut, and I see Yao Yu soup." Later, because the shareholder Tang Qizhuang thought that the political tendency of this alliance was too revealing, he wrote another league instead: "The slaughter of the world should be like meat, and the rule of the country should be cooked with small freshness." ”

Why should Rao Shijian associate the opening of restaurants with the rule of a big country, because during his visit to Europe, he realized a lot of principles of "governing the country". Rao Shigui's good friend and late Qing scholar Sun Baoxuan recorded many of Rao Shi's impressions of visiting Europe in the "Diary of Forgetting the Mountain". Shi Zhiyun: "I have tasted the footprints of several major european countries, visiting customs and customs, and I know that there are great deviations in things." Often in the other is a person of high moral character, praised by everyone, and in my opinion not to avoid suspicion, to be ridiculed by others. As in the Western custom, whoever encounters a woman who does not know each other on the way, takes the dust of her clothes and is anxious to wipe it, or if he has a lot of things and does not win, he carries it on his behalf and sends it to his home, and the bandit is grateful to his husband, and everyone thinks that he is a virtue. In terms of the customs of the human heart, the upper class of our country is inferior to the Westerners, while the inferior people are inferior to the people, but there are those who can win. But Rao Shi stubbornly does not think that the West is better than China in everything, and China also has better than the West. He took Hangzhou's West Lake as an example and said: "The best place in Europe is the Niwa Lake in Switzerland, but it is slightly inferior to my West Lake." For this reason, people have too much work and lose the fun of nature. ”

Rao Shijie was also a poet, authoring "Miscellaneous Poems of the Ten Kingdoms", "Ming Shi Gong Words", "Xiang Shu Guan Poetry Manuscript" and so on. His poems were widely recited at that time, such as "Shimen Guan" Yun: "Dreams in the Dream of the Cool Moon, Autumn Clouds on the Mountain." Where to send the double beads, get lost in the stone door. "Reading the Poetry Volume of the Bihu Yin Society" Yun: "The grass and trees in front of the Jia Feast Hall are scattered, and the breeze and drizzle temple bell is cold." Bian Zhou showed the moon tonight, and bitterly remembered the high people to release Jing'an. Guo Songtao once praised: "I have traveled all over the world, and I have seen talents like stone stubborn people who cover widows." Three years before the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, he composed the poem "Gifting the People of Haifeng to Japan". Shi Yun: "The sacred mountain on the sea is more than enough, and the Zen lamp is quiet in the middle of the night." It is good to sell the Fan Clip to the military, and not to store forged books with gourds. The original clan of Yinglu Andichen, the Chinese and Western states have relatives. The high man visited Gang Qianyu and waited for the king's gate to be dragged. Zhang Hanyi of the Republic of China edited the "Xiangya Crippled" and commented on the poem: "Up to the noon chaos, do your best to do what he says, the matter is separated by three bars, the candle is illuminated, it can be described as a genius." ”

Rao Shijian was friendly with Hanlin at the end of the Qing Dynasty and Zeng Guangjun, the grandson of Zeng Guofan, and tried to chant the "ChuNan Ancient Monuments Joint Sentence" with Guangjun. For example, in the "Baolu Tan" Yun: "Cui Di Shan Qiao Jiu Doubt (Zeng), Dan Ji Shui Pei obstructed the heavy departure (Rao). Space Baolu buried the silver urn (Rao), and did not see the auspicious wind returning to guiqi (Zeng). Yu Yongci's mother GuoZhong (曾), Jin Zhi Yaoqi "Han Gong Yi" (饶). The bow sword (饶) under Xiao ShaoFeng, the monument of the Song cypress Changlin Xuan clan (Zeng). This poem can be described as a workweight. It is precisely because Zeng Guangjun and Rao Shi are stubbornly friendly that Zeng Guangjun has a good story of "YulouDong" and inscribed "Spicy Chicken Soup Bubble Belly, Which Makes People Often Remember Yuloudong". Rao Shi stubbornly handed down other broken sentences, such as "people are crowded with water, spring snow is committed in the mountain city", "twelve red orchids and double swallows, and there is no one in the dusk rain", etc., are also called masterpieces.

As a Changsha native, Rao Shijie has a deep affection for the landscapes and rivers of Changsha, and has many poems that sing about the scenery and folklore of Changsha, and he records four of his "Changsha Orange Island Fishing Songs" as follows:

The fisherman Xiao Ping Qing Xiang came out, and the net hung more densely.

Last night, the river was born in autumn, and the children laughed and pointed to the southern orange.

The twilight wave is not collected, and the lone lamp is extinguished to recognize Luozhou.

Back to the boat angler first drunk, red lotus flower thin moon hook.

The vast smoke and water are empty, and the boats are fishing alone along the river.

Kiyogasa greentail is infinitely good, but on clearing the bottom of the net.

Qingjiang seems to be practicing Wenbo, and there are several Ling songs and miscellaneous songs.

The sunset in the west and the moon in the east, the light and wine into the boat more.

Rao Shi had a son and a daughter, who died early, and married Hu Ying, a revolutionary party member known as one of the "Three Masters of Taoyuan". It turned out that Hu Ying was appreciated by Rao Shi when he was studying in Changsha, and Rao loved his daughter Xu Zhi and made a covenant with a white head. Later, Hu Ying ran a revolution in Wuchang, was arrested and imprisoned in 1907, and the prison tan was known for his youth ambitions and took good care of him, and his daughter also knew the hero in the wind and dust, and washed and cooked for Hu Ying in prison, thus generating love and wishing to make a hundred years of good. After the Wuchang uprising in Xinhai, Hu was released from prison, and both Rao and Tan urged him to get married. Hu said that the two daughters could not refuse, and decided to marry both daughters. After the establishment of the Republic of China, Rao Shi stubbornly wanted to resort to the law, and after being mediated by Zhao Bingjun, who was then the premier of the state, he took Rao as his first wife and Tan shi as his second wife, but did not call him a concubine. In September 1912, Hu Ying held a grand wedding banquet in Beijing, and married Rao and Tan at the same time, known in history as "Hu Ying's Double Marriage". Legend has it that on the day of marriage, Rao Shi also taught his daughter how to write poems on guests, and a newspaper reported on the title of "Rao's Style and Elegance".

Rao Shi was also a revolutionary and joined the League before the Xinhai Revolution. The cause of his death has been said to have been spoken of. Zhang Hanyi compiled the Xiangya Shu Shu (湘雅摭残), saying that "Yuan Shi claimed the title of emperor, plotted assassination, failed, and was actually arrested to death." Chen Ganyi's "New Language Forest" of the Republic of China said: "In the three years of the Republic of China, when it went to the government, it had the request to scatter soldiers and fields, but when it was suspected, it was a disaster that he fell to his death, and those who heard about it were wronged." The "Compilation of Poetry and Sayings of the Republic of China" edited by Zhang Yinpeng also said later, Yun "Jia Yin was old, and he was afraid to touch the time with words, and he was killed, at the age of fifty."

According to Li Xiaoyan (Li Shuyi's father) "Notes on Xinglu", Rao Shi's death was related to Hu Ying. After Rao's daughter married Hu Ying, Rao Shi stubbornly "lived according to her daughter and lived in Beijing". Rao's "residence in Beijing" can also be confirmed from the "Diary of Wang Minyun", Wang Minyun went to Beijing in the early years of the Republic of China to serve as the director of the National History Museum, and the Xiang literati living in Beijing once set up banquets to entertain, and Wang Minyun mentioned in his diary that there were Rao Shi stubborn among these people. Rao "lives according to the daughter", which means to live in Hu Ying's house. At the end of 1915, Cai Yi raised an army in Yunnan, and Hu Ying changed from supporting Yuan (Hu Ying was one of the six gentlemen of the "Preparatory Society") to begging Yuan, "marrying Yuan Shikai, Yuan sent troops to Yingju, arrested six people to kill them, and Shi Stubborn and Yan". At that time, Hu Ying had secretly left Beijing to join the Defending Army and escaped death, but Rao Shi was arrested. The "Notes on Xinglu" also said that Wang Minyun, who was in Beijing, "has no time to save him by writing books." The above three theories about rao shi's death are slightly different, but they all boil down to "Yuan Shikai". A generation of poets finally died at the hands of Yuan Thief, sorry!